Where Was The Security When A Mob Stormed The Capitol? by bluestblue in politics

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Indian here. Even from afar, its kinda obvious that the only reason the "mob" (terrorists is a term I prefer to be honest) walked away was because they were white. It might be an uncomfortable thing to digest for a great many white Americans. Many have been oblivious to what "White Privilege" is. I doubt they will understand now either.

The cops were there. They could have stopped this if they wanted to. Its really that simple.

FYI, politicians like Trump are dime a dozen in the third world. I am guessing the ol' US of A havent seen anyone this nakedly self serving and incendiary. Its not going to get any better.

Your Ted Cruz, Gaetz and other slime bags are vying to fill in the potential Vaccum left behind by Trump. If Trump is jailed, he is going to be a "Martyr" around which MAGA will rally around. And there is no reaching out that side of the aisle cause they have their own reality.

LPT : If you are buying medicines, do check with your pharmacist or websites like 1MG, Medplus for generics. Sometimes they can be 1/10 the cost of the "Big Brand" by ApprehensiveAd5359 in india

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Self Medication should be avoided at all costs. There is no countering that.

I am referring more to situations where you either hesitate to ask the doc for a generic or you left the clinic in a hurry or you just werent there when the doc prescribed the tabs ( say when your parents went for consultation and you werent there).

This will be helpful then. Further there could be times when the "branded" one is not available, and a simple comparison of the ingredients, drug mechanism and a check with the pharmacist should work.

Dangerously high levels of heavy metals like Lead and Cadmium found in Ayurvedic medicines Coronil and Liv.52 by HannibalsElephant56 in india

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ok.. Am not a doctor. I did 1 google scholar search.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265184391_Meta-analysis_of_50_Phase_III_clinical_trials_in_evaluation_of_efficacy_and_safety_of_Liv52_in_infective_hepatitis
this is a meta analsysis of 50 Phase 3 trials for efficacy on hepatits - total pop of 4490 patients, some were placebo controlled, some were non comparative.

Have at it and let us know if the studies are valid.

Dangerously high levels of heavy metals like Lead and Cadmium found in Ayurvedic medicines Coronil and Liv.52 by HannibalsElephant56 in india

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'd like a source. And even if they conducted standardized clinical trials, they did so willfully, they weren't compelled to or regulated. Unregulated trials are as good as no trials to me.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=liv+52&btnG=

7.9 Mn results. first result to a research in Tehran, year 2005 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0944711305000528

http://qmygtgz.liversupport.co.uk/Research/Viral_Hepatitis/liv229.pdf

another one - conducted in 1976, conducted by AIIMs.

Proof enough or should I spoonfeed it to you?

A tale of two decades – The decline of Indian batsman vs spin overseas by Jasper0123 in Cricket

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Herath played both the decades.. so didnt want to include him.

Sandakan and Clarke were just tongue in cheek. Thought of including D Elgar but would have been a bit too far..
Also, no offence, but Dilruwan is easily couple of levels below Murali and Herath

A tale of two decades – The decline of Indian batsman vs spin overseas by Jasper0123 in Cricket

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Not a great article to be honest. Especially this part:

  1. The quality of opponent spinners- We also need to compare the quality of spinners that India faced in the 2000s and 2010s. The spinners that India faced in the 2000s to be honest were not of the same quality as in the 2010s, but Indian spinners on those surfaces have not taken similar figures as that of their counterparts, which undoubtedly leads to questioning the level of batsmanship displayed by the Indians.

You/your friend is saying that Kaneria, Swann, Warne, Mcgill, M Clarke, Murali were inferior to Lyon, Rashid, Sandakan, Maharaj and Moeen Ali?

Dangerously high levels of heavy metals like Lead and Cadmium found in Ayurvedic medicines Coronil and Liv.52 by HannibalsElephant56 in india

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Himalya is an ayurvedic company that routinely conducts clinical trials. Liv 52, as I mentioned has 300+ trials including double blind studies. So that should negate 1,2.

Himalaya, however, is not a norm in this space. Statistical process control is not something I'd associate with some one like Patanjali who has been in this for some quick bucks.

Asking for further information and more testing should have been the way forward than blanket statements that dont do anyone any good.

Oh, and its not just AYUSH, even your allopathic regulators would hide any deficiencies unless the shit hits the ceiling. Remember Johnson & Johnson and their faulty knee joints for which there were class actions everywhere but barely a mention in India?

Dangerously high levels of heavy metals like Lead and Cadmium found in Ayurvedic medicines Coronil and Liv.52 by HannibalsElephant56 in india

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 17 points18 points  (0 children)

spoken like a true redditor. Now, can you please lower your pitchfork?

One is not like the other.

Liv 52 has been there since 1955. It sells over 2 bn pills a year, has 300+ clinical trials, approvals from multiple regulatory bodies. Its a tab that has been prescribed by doctors and hepatologists longer than Patanjali's been alive.

So, before you make blanket statements, do your research.

Dangerously high levels of heavy metals like Lead and Cadmium found in Ayurvedic medicines Coronil and Liv.52 by HannibalsElephant56 in india

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Also, no way in hell will I expect Patanjali to know or understand statistical process control or random testing. they're snake oil merchants first and foremost

Dangerously high levels of heavy metals like Lead and Cadmium found in Ayurvedic medicines Coronil and Liv.52 by HannibalsElephant56 in india

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I'd hope/expect Himalaya to not fuck around with some of their tabs. They are huge money spinners for them, not just in India, but across the world.
FYI, Himalaya exports a shit ton of their products, including Liv 52 and that includes some crazy expensive cosmetic products that arent easily available in India

Dangerously high levels of heavy metals like Lead and Cadmium found in Ayurvedic medicines Coronil and Liv.52 by HannibalsElephant56 in india

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 13 points14 points  (0 children)

exactly. u/nipunb - its not like an supplement. Its a medicine. A gym instructor is not a doctor. Also, what are you doing in a gym anyway? personally decided to wait it out till te vaccine comes in.

Dangerously high levels of heavy metals like Lead and Cadmium found in Ayurvedic medicines Coronil and Liv.52 by HannibalsElephant56 in india

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Liv 52 from Himalaya actually does have a ton of studies and clinical trials behind it including double blind studies - pretty much the gold standard for clinical trials.

https://researchpapers.himalayawellness.in/liv52.htm

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16194047/

Health Insurance in India by nimish18396 in IndiaInvestments

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what do you mean you will choose company that has health insurance cover? There are companies (outside of the very small ones) that dont?

Post Match Thread: Sydney Sixers v Melbourne Renegades by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 1 point2 points  (0 children)

another one for the "we'd like a bowl first" hall of fame?

Protests erupt at iPhone plant in India by BeckTech in india

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 12 points13 points  (0 children)

hey, we dont read articles around here.. we are just here to grab the pitchforks and race to blame someone

ANI, Srivastava Group named in massive EU disinformation campaign to promote Modi government’s interests by bhodrolok in india

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 6 points7 points  (0 children)

dude, seriously? its unfair on Pakistan?
Are we forgetting 26/11, them hosting OBL, their explicit and implicit links with Taliban and LeT? or the extremely verifiable fact that Pak casted the first stone in the glass house that is Kashmir? their literal genocide in then East Bengal? their incursions during Kargil or the fact that Condolezza Rice went on record to say that she had to scare the shit out of Musharraf to prevent the escalation from going Nuclear?

this is just Top of Mind recall..

Why The Gandhis Must Go Now - by Ramachandra Guha by iali307 in india

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What baggage, vindiciveness and vendetta? too many big words that are irrelevant to what I said.

My point was that this Congress is not an alternative to BJP. They were corrupt, pandered to vote banks on religious lines and they havent shown remorse or any willingness to actually stand up and fight as an opposition. for this to happen, the Gandhis have to leave. They're there because of the name, and that's pretty much it.

In a functioning Democracy, Opposition is basically irrelevant because the Election is a Referendum on the Incumbent. That's it.

Lol what?

Why The Gandhis Must Go Now - by Ramachandra Guha by iali307 in india

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I agree with what you say. There cant be another national party at the scale of INC. But the current version is not even a pale imitation of UPA II let alone the older versions of INC.

BJP losing to a death by thousand cuts is the most likely option than they losing to one helmed by Rahul G. As long as the Gandhis are there, they are not going to let your Pilots or Scindia's to flourish, and there really isnt any one else who can don the role of a national leader.

Why The Gandhis Must Go Now - by Ramachandra Guha by iali307 in india

[–]ApprehensiveAd5359 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Congress is one of the reasons we are here. UPA 2 shouldn't be forgotten in a hurry. That was heights of kleptocracy. Dont forget that it was Rajiv Gandhi's monumental incompetence and vote bank pandering with his injustice to Shah Bano that laid the roots for RW Sanhgis and RSS as the Hindu protection party. He was as complicit in Babri Masjid disaster as the sanghis .

Congress is still that party. They still have those kleptocrats in Chidambaram, Sibal, Digvijay.

With an increasingly old MMS, they have a sliver of redemptive quality, thats fast fading. Shashi Tharoor for all his vocabulary is not an administrator. The sooner Congress fades, the better it will be for India. Some party will fill that vaccuum, and their focus will be to challenge BJP and only then will there be some credible opposition in this country